Hare (hieroglyph)

The ancient Egyptian Hare hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. E34 is a portrayal of the desert hare or Cape hare, Lepus capensis of Egypt, within the Gardiner signs for mammals. The ancients used the name of sekhat for the hare.

It is an Egyptian language [Egyptian Egyptian biliteral signs|biliteral signs|biliteral] with the value wn,, often used in a hieroglyph composition block with the horizontal n. E34:N35:N35 or E34:N35

The biliteral expresses the sound "oon", or "oonen",; it is also an ideogram for the verb "to be", or "to exist",.
The famous Pharaoh Unas,, is named using the hare hieroglyph. It also appears in the name of Wenamun, a priest who appears in a famous history of c. 1000 BCE.